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Venus - 3-D Perspective View of Sapas Mons

Sapas Mons on the the planet Venus
Photojournal: PIA00107
Source: NASA/JPL
Published: April 4, 2018

Sapas Mons is displayed in the center of this computer-generated three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus. 

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